Biology Past Questions And Answers
The deficiency of vitamin D leads to
- A) scurvy
- B) pellagra
- C) rickets
- D) beriberi
Which of the following biomes is dominated by grasses and herbaceous plants, with some trees and shrubs, and characterized by seasonal rains, a pronounced dry season, and often large migratory mammals?
- A. Tundra
- B. Tropical rainforest
- C. Desert
- D. Savanna
One reason for the success of Mendel's work is that the
- A. was the first to carry out research work on modern genetics
- B. introduced quantitative and qualitative elements into his work
- C. selected two characteristics only at a time for study
- D. drew up his laws of inheritance based on his knowledge of chromosomes
The autonomic nervous system consists of neurons that control the
- A. voluntary muscles
- B. heart beat
- C. tongue
- D. hands
The stream-lined shape of fishes is an adaptation for
- A. Securing mates
- B. easy movement
- C. obtaining food
- D. defence and attack
The following conditions form the basis of competition in a habitat except
- A. food
- B. space
- C. reproductive mate
- D. Body structure
The Rhesus factor of blood was first identified in a category of
- A. monkeys
- B. human females
- C. human males
- D. chimpanzees
A person suffering from obstruction of the bile duct is advised not to eat fats and oil because digesting food
- A. bile digests fats and oil
- B. fats and oil can only be absorbed whenbile is absent
- C. bile emulsifies fat and oil
- D. bile adds to water
The companion cells are part of the
- A. pericycle
- B. phloem
- C. pith
- D. xylem
A tapeworm fasten itself to the intestine of its host with
- A) neck and sucker
- B) hooks and suckers
- C) Rostellum and suckers
- D) proglottis and neck

